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The effects of sleep deprivation on pain inhibition and spontaneous pain in women

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The researchers experimentally messed with the sleep of 32 women, and found that they were significantly more pain-sensitive, although in that case the effect was caused by sleep discontinuity, not deprivation alone (most insomniacs face both problems).

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